Job Title: Director of Sleep Lab Services
Reports To: Chief Nursing Officer
Position Description:
The Director of Sleep Lab provides administrative, technical, operational, and quality oversight for Johnson Regional Medical Center’s Sleep Laboratory. The Director is responsible for daily operations, personnel management, scheduling, competency validation, regulatory compliance, accreditation readiness, patient safety, equipment management, quality improvement, and the delivery of technically accurate sleep-testing services.
The Director must hold and maintain the Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) credential through the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Administrative and Operational Leadership
Directs the daily administrative and technical operations of the Sleep Laboratory.
Develops and maintains departmental goals, policies, procedures, staffing plans, workflows, and performance standards.
Ensures adequate staffing and appropriately qualified personnel for scheduled in-laboratory and home sleep testing services.
Prepares staff schedules, manages timekeeping, monitors attendance, and ensures appropriate coverage for nighttime operations.
Participates in recruitment, interviewing, selection, onboarding, orientation, supervision, evaluation, counseling, and professional development of sleep-laboratory personnel.
Maintains personnel files containing current licenses, certifications, competency records, continuing education, CPR credentials, and other required documentation.
Develops and monitors the departmental operating and capital budgets.
Monitors productivity, testing volume, referral patterns, cancellations, no-shows, overtime, supply utilization,



reimbursement trends, and cost per study.
Coordinates the acquisition, maintenance, repair, replacement, and calibration of sleep-testing equipment.
Maintains vendor relationships and ensures service agreements support safe and uninterrupted operations.
Collaborates with hospital leadership, medical staff, respiratory therapy, nursing, information technology, health information management, revenue cycle, quality, compliance, infection prevention, and biomedical services.
Participates in strategic planning and community outreach activities designed to improve access to sleep-medicine services.
Technical Oversight
Ensure sleep studies are conducted according to physician orders, approved protocols, manufacturer instructions, payer requirements, and recognized professional standards.
Maintains competency in polysomnography and provides technical guidance to staff performing:
Diagnostic polysomnography
Positive airway pressure titration;
Split-night studies;
Multiple Sleep Latency Testing;
Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing;
Home Sleep Apnea Testing
Pediatric testing, when offered and approved;
Supplemental oxygen administration pursuant to an authorized order;
CPAP, bilevel PAP, and other noninvasive positive-pressure interventions within approved protocols;
Electroencephalographic, electrooculographic, electromyographic, respiratory, cardiac, oxygen saturation, body-position, and video monitoring.
Ensures proper electrode and sensor application, physiologic signal acquisition, impedance verification, calibration, documentation, artifact correction, and equipment troubleshooting.
Establishes and monitors technical standards for acquisition, scoring, report preparation, and secure

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